Coming Soon 👀 At the beginning of April, you’ll be
introduced to a brand-new GoComics! See more information here. Subscribers, check your
email for more details.
Interesting that in Europe at least the use of urine (and animal and human dung) to tan leather was gradually phased out in the mid 19th Century and replaced by chromium based tanning solutions. A similar process happened in the paper industry at around the same time but for rather different reasons. Cotton paper manufacture, which did indeed use urine, was gradually overtaken by wood-pulp based paper, whose processing did not need urine. Basically because the huge increase in demand for paper products meant that the used cotton recycling industry could no longer meet the demand, and the wood-pulp paper industry took over.
x_Tech almost 7 years ago
Urine kidding.
Templo S.U.D. almost 7 years ago
is there nothing liquid bodily waste cannot do?
SpaceBuckaroo almost 7 years ago
Guiana border with Brazil: 453.6 miles
therese_callahan2002 almost 7 years ago
I thought Guiana was spelled with a Y, not an I.
californiamonty almost 7 years ago
Guiana is an overseas department of France; Guyana is an independent country.
joefearsnothing almost 7 years ago
I remember Palance doing that!
SamT53 almost 7 years ago
Ironic that Palance would make the RBION strip.
Huckleberry Hiroshima Premium Member almost 7 years ago
Well having one strong arm is better than having two weak arms I guess. Yuck yuck.
CeeJay almost 7 years ago
Good old Jack Palance….once a coal cracker, always a coal cracker.
Max Starman Jones almost 7 years ago
No wonder old paper is not acid-free.
Max Starman Jones almost 7 years ago
If we’re France-centered, it should be “Guiana, running alongside Brazil…”
Max Starman Jones almost 7 years ago
Is England’s longest border “Canada, running alongside the United States?”
pearlsbs almost 7 years ago
Jack Palance. See it here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGxL5AFzzMY
Gent almost 7 years ago
Oh, I never knew Guiana was France!
Gent almost 7 years ago
Gimme that academy award and I’ll do push ups with my single bear hand.
PatsyL.Paul almost 7 years ago
If newspapers used that urine-treated paper…would that be “yellow journalism”?
Peam Premium Member almost 7 years ago
Interesting that in Europe at least the use of urine (and animal and human dung) to tan leather was gradually phased out in the mid 19th Century and replaced by chromium based tanning solutions. A similar process happened in the paper industry at around the same time but for rather different reasons. Cotton paper manufacture, which did indeed use urine, was gradually overtaken by wood-pulp based paper, whose processing did not need urine. Basically because the huge increase in demand for paper products meant that the used cotton recycling industry could no longer meet the demand, and the wood-pulp paper industry took over.
MosheWaisberg over 6 years ago
I remember Palance when he did Ripley’s BION tv series